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Factors affecting urban households’ participation in home gardens: the case of Mekelle City, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Horticultural Science
Home gardening is a means of food production and for enhancing household food security. The people of Tigray used home gardens as a means of survival during the war and siege, particularly in the urban areas. However, there is a lack of empirical studies
Aregawi Beyene   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smallholder cattle farmers’ perceptions, adoption potential, and utilization of trees and shrubs as livestock feeds in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023
The sustainability of the livestock sector is negatively affected by insufficient quality and quantity of feeds. The effects of population growth and climate change further exacerbate the availability of feeds.
Didier Kichochi Barwani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Fixed Effects in Panel Probit Models [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Many applied settings in empirical economics require estimation of a large number of fixed effects, like teacher effects or location effects. In the context of binary response variables, previous studies have been limited to the linear probability model, citing perfect prediction and incidental parameter biases as reasons. We explain why these problems
Kunz, Johannes S   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Dual Role Executives and Corporate Membership of Emission Trading Schemes: The Role of Board Structure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of CEO duality on the likelihood of corporate participation in an emissions trading scheme. The results indicate that firms led by dual‐role executives are less likely to participate in emissions trading schemes.
Ibrahim Ayoade Adekunle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A RESEARCH ON THE PROFILE OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ, BRAZIL

open access: yesEconomia & Região, 2019
This work seeks to analyze the behavior of the consumption of cultural goods by the students of the Federal University of Ceará - UFC. A questionnaire was used as a way of capturing and manipulating the data so that economic and social aspects of the ...
Thiago Andrade Sales   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Biodiversity Disclosure Through the Interaction Between Women Leaders and Environmental Team: A Critical Mass Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems is increasingly recognised as essential to the long‐term sustainability of organisational operations. Drawing on critical mass theory, upper echelon theory and gender socialisation theory, this study examines the influence of female board and executive representation on corporate biodiversity ...
Masoud Rahmani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calculating the Probability of Returning a Loan with Binary Probability Models [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Statistică, 2014
The purpose of this article is to give a new approach in calculating the probability of returning a loan. A lot of factors affect the value of the probability.
Julian Vasilev
doaj  

The Effect of Buyer–Supplier Firm Age Distance on Green Innovation: A Resource Dependence Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By integrating the perspectives of age dependence and resource dependence theory (RDT), this paper explores the relationship between dependence on age‐distant suppliers and green innovation. Meanwhile, considering the mechanisms adopted by firms to manage supplier dependence, we also examine the moderating effects of various dependency ...
Yang Yang, Yan Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

How are school dropouts related to household characteristics? Analysis of survey data from Bangladesh

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2017
Human capital accumulation is one of the key drivers of economic growth especially in developing countries that are trying to catch up in per capita income with the developed world.
Nusrat Farah, Mukti P. Upadhyay
doaj   +1 more source

Innovation Forms and Firm Export Performance: Empirical Evidence from ECA Countries

open access: yesEntrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2017
Objective: The main objective of this paper is to verify empirically the relationship between various forms of innovation and export performance of firms from European and Central Asian (ECA) countries.
Andrzej Cieślik, Jan Jakub Michałek
doaj   +1 more source

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